Reality Talk

Welcome to the June 18, 2009 edition of the Objectivist Roundup. Writers of the following pieces are motivated by Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism. According to Ayn Rand:

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

“About the Author,” Atlas Shrugged, Appendix.

And so begins Objectivist Roundup #101:

John Drake presents Business ethics research - a good sign posted at Try Reason!, saying, “An update on my research shows a positive sign for spreading Objectivist ethics to business students.”

Jared Rhoads presents LTE on Karl Rove’s reasons posted at The Lucidicus Project, saying, “Karl Rove gives five reasons to oppose socialized medicine, but preserving doctors’ rights is not one of them.”

Lache presents Once common specimen is now an endangered species… posted at Thoughts of a Feral Capitalist.

Kathryn presents Praise for the film “The Brothers Bloom” posted at The Pursuit, saying, “Daniel, the newest blogger at The Pursuit, gives a glowing review of the film The Brothers Bloom (in theaters now)”

Tom Stelene presents Anti-Gunners Still Misfiring posted at The Audacity of Independence, saying, “Whatever dangerous, fraud-based legislation the anti-gun crowd is concocting now can be easily defeated if the American public gets wise to the inherently deceptive nature of the anti-gunners - which is not hard to uncover.”

Khartoum presents Angels and Demons II posted at Philosophy, Law and Life., saying, “This post analyzes the question posed in the movie Angles and Demons over and over again: Could one ever bridge science with religion?”

C. August presents The Aristocracy of Unproductive Zombies posted at Titanic Deck Chairs.

Kelly Elmore presents Parenting Without Altruism posted at Reepicheep’s Coracle.

Ari Armstrong presents Liberty in Religion and Medicine posted at FreeColorado.com, saying, “Do doctors have the right NOT to perform an abortion?”

Daniel presents Do Your Thing. And Do It Now. posted at The Nearby Pen.

Kirk presents Socrates and the State posted at A is A, saying, “A review of Crito by Plato. In one of the many Diaolgues of Socrates Crito pleads with Socrates to not allow his execution to happen, to flee. Socrates - using logic - explicates his reasoning. Unfortunately, there are many flaws in the reasoning of Socrates.”

Edward Cline presents ABC News aka OBC News posted at The Rule of Reason, saying, “To guarantee that there is no ‘debate’ on the government’s plan to impose mandatory health care ‘reform’ on the nation, President Barack Obama has made a deal with ABC News to conduct a phony prime time ‘town hall’ style meeting from the Blue Room of the White House on June 24. The sanctimonious and overly chummy anchor Charles Gibson will host ‘World News’ from that precious vantage point. He will welcome the nation to the to the first airing of the Obama Broadcasting Corporation.”

Paul Hsieh presents Another Doctor “Goes Galt” posted at We Stand FIRM, saying, “We’ll see more doctors doing this if/when we get ‘universal health care’.”

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